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AWAKEN: Chapter 23
I guess I could praise myself for not overreacting when my best friend’s doctor father told me that my Greek god maybe-boyfriend, and the guy I’m apparently meant to be marrying, had just woken up from a coma, which his brother had unintentionally put him in while he was trying to weaken him so that he could kill him to gain control of an alternate realm called the Dreamlands. Yup, I think I reacted really well.
I think I managed to thank Doc for calling, but I’m not completely sure as I was functioning on autopilot. My mind swam with questions that would probably never be answered. How is this even possible? Why now? What did it all mean? I contemplated calling Ally and asking for her thoughts on the matter but I had plagued the woman enough for one day and Morpheus would still be awake tomorrow. Instead, I grabbed my journal and wrote in big, elaborate writing “Morpheus woke up today”. I had the feeling I may want to remember the date for years
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His lips were soft on mine, gentle pressure which seemed to warm me to the tips of my toes. I felt my arms wrap around his neck as my eyes closed in bliss and he pulled me close to him. Morpheus. The thought pierced my mind like an arrow, striking my consciousness. It wasn’t Morpheus who I was kissing. No, it was Ricky and I shouldn’t be enjoying his kiss as much as I was. I slowly pulled back, reluctant to end the kiss although I knew that I had to. I felt as if I was cheating on Morpheus, even if we weren’t really together and our relationship was sort of up in the air due to his being awake. I had planned on visiting him in hospital earlier in the day, but when Ricky arrived the plan flew out the window – along with my brain apparently. I registered the confusion displayed on Ricky’s face as I broke contact with him. “I’m sorry, Cal. I shouldn’t have... I don’t know why I did that.” he said, slightly dazed. He seemed even more awkwa
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The neurology ward was a welcomed sight, even though my stomach was tied in anxious knots about meeting “John Doe”. I entertained the thought that the man who had woken up may not even be Morpheus, even though there was so much proof which said otherwise. I twisted the silver bracelet on my wrist as I walked toward the nurses’ station, a nervous gesture which I didn’t even realise I was doing.“Good morning Callie, I didn’t realise you were coming in today.” the greying nurse behind the desk smiled at me.I smiled back at her, or at least I tried to, as I put on the apron which signified me as being a volunteer.“Yeah, it was a spur-of-the-moment decision.” I admitted.I listen to the woman babble on about the new interns who were going to be coming in and how she hoped that there were some cute male interns who she could try set her daughter up with. Apparently, trying to intervene in your child&rsquo
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I barely saw Morpheus over the next few weeks, having been bombarded with schoolwork and working at the restaurant, but when I did see him I didn’t get to talk to him much. The second time I worked in the ward after he woke up, I realized that he was being watched by the staff, as if he were some sort of terrorist or international criminal on the run. I half expected him to be handcuffed to the bed when I returned, but instead I found him channel surfing and complaining about how pointless and repetitive television had become. I smiled at him as I entered but didn’t dare speak to him for more than a few minutes since a security guard had been posted by the entrance to the ward. The nurses tried to tell me that it was a new hospital procedure, but since none of the other wards were being watched like a hawk, I was forced to wonder what the guard’s true purpose was.We discovered that Morpheus had become just another dreamer without any control or abilit
In The Arms of Morpheus Chapter 27
“Welcome to the Darklands, my dear.” The voice echoed in the large room coldly, as if its owner was devoid of all emotion. The room was dark, lit with only a single candle which sputtered on a desk as if it was about to die. The desk itself stood in - what I could only presume - the centre of the room and looked as if it belonged to an elite royal family in its antique finery. I found my eyes darting around the room, searching for the source of the cold voice which had greeted me. “I trust that Dareios has behaved himself? He didn’t try to kill you this time, did he?” I saw the shadow of a figure move slightly on the opposite end of the room and it occurred to me that Icelus may look so hideous that he preferred to stick to the shadows. He was probably gruesomely disfigured, or had horns, rotting teeth, burn scars or something equally atrocious. “No. Not this time.” I he
In The Arms of Morpheus Chapter 28
Ally picked me up early on the Black Friday, as we had planned the night before. We were going to visit Morpheus and meet the rest of the Sykes family, the farmers who he was staying with. Ally’s car is seriously beyond description, although it is almost as if femininity exploded in it. Every inch of it – inside and out - was covered with flowers, hearts or sequins, and the steering wheel was dotted with butterflies, and yet somehow it suited her.“Welcome to Elizabeth.” she beamed as I climbed in, patting the dashboard lovingly before she pulled off.I remembered that she had crashed a car just a few months ago and suddenly got a bit nervous, although I wasn’t her fiancé and I wasn’t about to break her heart. I found my eyes losing focus as the crops we sped past became a blur. I must have dosed off because one moment I was watching the crops and then next we were pulling into a gravel driveway while Kayla sang horridly.
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I barely slept, my mind running away with me at odd tangents and composing situations within my head that seemed to lead either toward Morpheus or toward Ricky. Both had their pros and cons, but if I had to be honest with myself I was swaying towards Ricky big time. Morpheus in reality seemed different on so many levels. It was as if he wasn’t in control of anything anymore and I realised that it was what drew me to him in the first place. He was always in control of his emotions, composed beyond words – until he woke up that is. Now he sat at the edge of his seat as if I would pull out a knife and stab him through the chest a few times, but I don’t think Icelus would thank me for taking away his fun.When I eventually fell asleep I found myself sitting on a bench next to Dareios – just my luck.“Good evening, my sweet. Missed me already?” he chuckled, putting an arm around me. I tried to pull myself away but it
In The Arms of Morpheus Chapter 30
“Hey Nik, what’s new?”I lay on my stomach on my bed with my arms resting on its edge, my laptop on the floor with the screen and camera pointed up at me so that I didn’t have to strain my neck. I took a bite of a carrot while I waited for my brother to connect up his ‘broken’ camera.“Hey Cal. Finals, sister of mine, finals are what is new.”His voice sounded as if he was speaking from inside a tunnel – the joys of cross-Atlantic communication.“Ooh, ouch!” I sympathised, nibbling my carrot some more.Nik’s face flickered onto the screen, eyebrow raised in question.“What? I’m on diet.”I knew I sounded defensive but I was rather embarrassed to be on diet in the first place. Greek girls don’t diet without a man being behind it all.“I didn’t say a thing.” Nik threw his hands up in the air as if blocking an imaginar
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By the end of the day, everyone had heard that I had lost my virginity to Ricky and no matter how much I denied it wasn’t believed by anyone who didn’t know me personally. In fact, some of those people who did know me personally even thought that it was true. Matt, the guy who sat behind me in maths winked at me as he walked past and then drew me a picture of a bed, writing the words ‘wanna jump in it with me?’ underneath. I threw the paper back at him but I don’t think it got my point across as he stared at me the whole way through the lesson.I should have never crossed the cheerleader. The realisation came as I walked home from school that afternoon and the freshman girls who usually walked along with me asked me how Ricky was in bed and if I screwed him before or after he asked Marie out. The whole school obviously believed the lie and it just made me want to shove Marie’s pompoms down her throat. I basically ran the whole way
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